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Lee Michaels
Guest
Elephants need exercise, just like us!!
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/03/28/idaho_zoo_installs_elephant_treadmill/
This is interesting. They had to go to a company that makes conveyor belts
for the mining industry to make this treadmill. Definitely not your
consumer-human model.
Since this is in Alaska, they could have made her some giant cross country
skis!!
Elepants are very good swimmers. I saw a show recently that showed them
swimming. I was amazed that they move in the water so well. They can easily
swim for twenty or thirty miles too. Part of it is that they float so
easily. But those legs are very efficient paddles.
Sooooooo..............., why not a giant swim spa? The elephant would get a
bath. They like the water. They are supported by the water. Etc.
Two engineering challenges for this project that I can see. One would be to
have an easy way to get the elephant in and out of the swim spa. The other
would be to build a very powerful system to produce the current that the
elephant would swim against.
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/03/28/idaho_zoo_installs_elephant_treadmill/
This is interesting. They had to go to a company that makes conveyor belts
for the mining industry to make this treadmill. Definitely not your
consumer-human model.
Since this is in Alaska, they could have made her some giant cross country
skis!!
Elepants are very good swimmers. I saw a show recently that showed them
swimming. I was amazed that they move in the water so well. They can easily
swim for twenty or thirty miles too. Part of it is that they float so
easily. But those legs are very efficient paddles.
Sooooooo..............., why not a giant swim spa? The elephant would get a
bath. They like the water. They are supported by the water. Etc.
Two engineering challenges for this project that I can see. One would be to
have an easy way to get the elephant in and out of the swim spa. The other
would be to build a very powerful system to produce the current that the
elephant would swim against.